Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by a passion which will rock his bland existence to the core.

Malena

2000

Italian

7.4

♡ 277

54%

Giuseppe Tornatore Director

Lucia Sardo as 2a Donna linciaggio

Monica Bellucci as Malèna Scordia

Angelo Pellegrino as Segretario politico

Drew Breeden as US Soldier

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.

Ennio

2021

Italian

8.2

♡ 29

91%

Giuseppe Tornatore Director

Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness

Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis Warren

Robert De Niro as Self

Leonardo DiCaprio as Self

A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores.

Everybody's Fine

1990

Italian

7.6

♡ 1

67%

87%

Action

Drama

Giuseppe Tornatore Director

Victor Cavallo as

Roberto Nobile as Guglielmo

Leo Gullotta as Uomo armato sul tetto

Michèle Morgan as Woman in train

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

The Unknown Woman

2006

Italian

7.4

♡ 11

66%

full frontal female nudity

Giuseppe Tornatore Director

Margherita Buy as Avvocato Irena

Kseniya Rappoport as Irena

Ángela Molina as Lucrezia

Giulia Di Quilio as Segretaria

Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little girl, Thea. However, that is just the very beginning of her unknown journey.

Cinema Paradiso

1988

Italian

8.5

♡ 116

90%

parent child relationship

Romance

sicily, italy

Giuseppe Tornatore Director

Claire Trevor as Dallas

Ingrid Bergman as Ivy Peterson

Charles Chaplin as Referee / The Lone Prospector

Errol Flynn as Robin Hood

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Correspondence

2016

Italian

6.1

♡ 12

13%

Giuseppe Tornatore Director

Olga Kurylenko as Amy Ryan

Jeremy Irons as Ed Phoerum

Paolo Calabresi as Prescatore Ottavio

James Bloor as Ragazzo

The relationship between Ed, a married astronomer and Amy, his lover, who spend their years apart, is based only on phone calls and texts. One day Amy begins noticing something strange in Ed's messages.

Baaria

2009

Italian

6.9

♡ 4

Giuseppe Tornatore Director

Monica Bellucci as Bricklayer's Girlfriend

Luigi Maria Burruano as Chemist

Leo Gullotta as Liborio

Raoul Bova as Roman journalist

Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.

A Pure Formality

1994

French

7.5

♡ 25

80%

Giuseppe Tornatore Director

Sergio Rubini as Andre, the Young Policeman

Roman Polanski as Inspector

Paolo Lombardi as Marshall

Gérard Depardieu as Onoff

Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.

The Legend of 1900

1998

Italian

8.0

♡ 29

58%

Giuseppe Tornatore Director

Anita Zagaria as

Andrew Dunford as Foreman

Pruitt Taylor Vince as Max

Tim Roth as Novecento

The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.

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